December FIDE rating list

Nov 30, 2013

Magnus Carlsen enters the month of December as a World Champion and world’s highest rated player for the first time. He also equalizes his own record of 2872 set in March and April 2013, after gaining 2 ELO points from the match with Anand.

Levon Aronian is the only player, besides Magnus, rated over 2800 ELO. With 79 points gap, he takes second position with 2803. Third position is for Vladimir Kramnik with 2793, but he is close to losing this position after the loss from Nakamura and the draws with Mamedov and Li Chao at the World Chess Team Championship.

Players placed 4th to 9th have practically identical ratings. At 4th position is Nakamura with 2786 ELO, and at 9th we find the ex World Champion Viswanathan Anand with 2773 ELO. In the same group enter also Veselin Topalov, Alexander Grischuk, Fabiano Caruana, and Boris Gelfand. 10th position is for Candidates 2014 participant Peter Svidler with 2758 ELO.

This time the rating list suffers no inflation or deflation, the top 100 staying at average 2703 ELO, still lower than the November 2012 record.

Rank

Name

Title

Country

Rating

Games

B-Year

1

Carlsen, Magnus

g

NOR

2872

10

1990

2

Aronian, Levon

g

ARM

2803

9

1982

3

Kramnik, Vladimir

g

RUS

2793

0

1975

4

Nakamura, Hikaru

g

USA

2786

0

1987

5

Topalov, Veselin

g

BUL

2785

7

1975

6

Grischuk, Alexander

g

RUS

2783

8

1983

7

Caruana, Fabiano

g

ITA

2782

9

1992

8

Gelfand, Boris

g

ISR

2777

0

1968

9

Anand, Viswanathan

g

IND

2773

10

1969

10

Svidler, Peter

g

RUS

2758

11

1976

11

Mamedyarov, Shakhriyar

g

AZE

2757

8

1985

12

Karjakin, Sergey

g

RUS

2756

0

1990

13

Adams, Michael

g

ENG

2754

8

1971

14

Dominguez Perez, Leinier

g

CUB

2754

0

1983

15

Vachier-Lagrave, Maxime

g

FRA

2745

11

1990

16

Vitiugov, Nikita

g

RUS

2741

0

1987

17

Bacrot, Etienne

g

FRA

2740

10

1983

18

Naiditsch, Arkadij

g

GER

2737

9

1985

19

Wang, Hao

g

CHN

2735

3

1989

20

Giri, Anish

g

NED

2734

10

1994

21

Eljanov, Pavel

g

UKR

2733

0

1983

22

Ivanchuk, Vassily

g

UKR

2731

0

1969

23

Ponomariov, Ruslan

g

UKR

2731

0

1983

24

Leko, Peter

g

HUN

2730

0

1979

25

Wang, Yue

g

CHN

2723

3

1987

26

Morozevich, Alexander

g

RUS

2722

6

1977

27

Jakovenko, Dmitry

g

RUS

2721

0

1983

28

Kamsky, Gata

g

USA

2721

0

1974

29

Nepomniachtchi, Ian

g

RUS

2721

0

1990

30

So, Wesley

g

PHI

2719

0

1993

31

Malakhov, Vladimir

g

RUS

2716

3

1980

32

Tomashevsky, Evgeny

g

RUS

2715

6

1987

33

Moiseenko, Alexander

g

UKR

2713

8

1980

34

Radjabov, Teimour

g

AZE

2713

8

1987

35

Korobov, Anton

g

UKR

2713

0

1985

36

Areshchenko, Alexander

g

UKR

2712

10

1986

37

Wojtaszek, Radoslaw

g

POL

2711

0

1987

38

Ding, Liren

g

CHN

2710

3

1992

39

Andreikin, Dmitry

g

RUS

2709

7

1990

40

Almasi, Zoltan

g

HUN

2708

10

1976

41

Navara, David

g

CZE

2708

9

1985

42

Harikrishna, P.

g

IND

2708

2

1986

43

Fressinet, Laurent

g

FRA

2707

0

1981

44

Rublevsky, Sergei

g

RUS

2706

0

1974

45

Vallejo Pons, Francisco

g

ESP

2705

10

1982

46

Jobava, Baadur

g

GEO

2705

9

1983

47

Le, Quang Liem

g

VIE

2703

0

1991

48

Kasimdzhanov, Rustam

g

UZB

2701

2

1979

49

Kryvoruchko, Yuriy

g

UKR

2701

0

1986

50

Matlakov, Maxim

g

RUS

2700

0

1991

51

Inarkiev, Ernesto

g

RUS

2698

1

1985

52

Alekseev, Evgeny

g

RUS

2698

0

1985

53

Shirov, Alexei

g

LAT

2695

0

1972

54

Polgar, Judit

g

HUN

2693

8

1976

55

Nisipeanu, Liviu-Dieter

g

ROU

2691

9

1976

56

Movsesian, Sergei

g

ARM

2689

9

1978

57

Riazantsev, Alexander

g

RUS

2689

0

1985

58

Rapport, Richard

g

HUN

2687

2

1996

59

Bu, Xiangzhi

g

CHN

2685

3

1985

60

McShane, Luke J

g

ENG

2684

7

1984

61

Akopian, Vladimir

g

ARM

2684

5

1971

62

Short, Nigel D

g

ENG

2683

7

1965

63

Li, Chao b

g

CHN

2683

3

1989

64

Rodshtein, Maxim

g

ISR

2683

2

1989

65

Zhigalko, Sergei

g

BLR

2682

9

1989

66

Laznicka, Viktor

g

CZE

2681

9

1988

67

Granda Zuniga, Julio E

g

PER

2680

0

1967

68

Volokitin, Andrei

g

UKR

2678

10

1986

69

Van Wely, Loek

g

NED

2678

2

1972

70

Berkes, Ferenc

g

HUN

2677

11

1985

71

Bruzon Batista, Lazaro

g

CUB

2677

0

1982

72

Sargissian, Gabriel

g

ARM

2675

9

1983

73

Khismatullin, Denis

g

RUS

2674

0

1984

74

Dreev, Aleksey

g

RUS

2673

0

1969

75

Cheparinov, Ivan

g

BUL

2672

0

1986

76

Onischuk, Alexander

g

USA

2672

0

1975

77

Negi, Parimarjan

g

IND

2671

0

1993

78

Istratescu, Andrei

g

FRA

2670

10

1975

79

Ni, Hua

g

CHN

2669

3

1983

80

Grachev, Boris

g

RUS

2669

0

1986

81

Yu, Yangyi

g

CHN

2667

3

1994

82

Lysyj, Igor

g

RUS

2666

0

1987

83

Sasikiran, Krishnan

g

IND

2666

0

1981

84

Edouard, Romain

g

FRA

2665

17

1990

85

Bologan, Viktor

g

MDA

2661

2

1971

86

Fedorchuk, Sergey A.

g

UKR

2660

15

1981

87

Erdos, Viktor

g

HUN

2658

10

1987

88

Tiviakov, Sergei

g

NED

2658

2

1973

89

Socko, Bartosz

g

POL

2657

9

1978

90

Sutovsky, Emil

g

ISR

2657

0

1977

91

Mamedov, Rauf

g

AZE

2656

8

1988

92

Gharamian, Tigran

g

FRA

2656

1

1984

93

Efimenko, Zahar

g

UKR

2655

8

1985

94

Romanov, Evgeny

g

RUS

2654

11

1988

95

Amin, Bassem

g

EGY

2654

9

1988

96

Jones, Gawain C B

g

ENG

2654

8

1987

97

Khairullin, Ildar

g

RUS

2653

0

1990

98

Zvjaginsev, Vadim

g

RUS

2653

0

1976

99

Nielsen, Peter Heine

g

DEN

2652

3

1973

100

Lenic, Luka

g

SLO

2651

9

1988

101

Beliavsky, Alexander G

g

SLO

2651

0

1953

For the 71st time, highest rated woman is Judit Polgar. With 2693 ELO, she keeps advantage ahead of World Champion Yifan Hou, who is at second position with 2629. Humpy Koneru is the third woman above 2600, with 2607 ELO.